KEGG compound contains our knowledge on the universe of chemical substances that are relevant to life.

Prefix

kegg.compound

Alternative Prefixes

KEGG.COMPOUND KEGG COMPOUND

Keywords

small molecule

Links

Homepage

Contact

Minoru Kanehisa   0000-0001-6123-540X

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in KEGG Compound should match this regular expression:
^C\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

C12345   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from KEGG Compound should match this regular expression:
^kegg\.compound:C\d+$

Example CURIE

kegg.compound:C12345

Publications

2012 Using the KEGG database resource

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

Part Of (bfo:0000050 )

kegg

In Collection

ChEBI Data Sources

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 7 mappings to external registries for this resource with 4 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier C12345 is used to demonstrate the providers available for KEGG Compound. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.